prep school

英 [ˈprep skuːl]

美 [ˈprep skuːl]

n.  预备学校(英国为11或13岁以下的儿童开办的私立学校); 预备学校，预科学校(美国为准备升入大学者开设的私立学校)

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柯林斯词典

• 预备学校（英国为11或13岁以下的儿童开办的私立学校）
  In Britain, aprep schoolis a private school where children are educated until the age of 11 or 13.
• N-VAR 预备学校，预科学校（美国为准备升入大学者而设的私立学校）
  In the United States, aprep schoolis a private school for students who intend to go to college after they leave.
  1. ...an exclusive prep school in Washington.
     华盛顿一所贵族预科学校

英英释义

noun

• a private secondary school
  Synonym:preparatory school

双语例句

• I sent her to a nice prep school back east.
  我她送到东部一所一流的寄宿学校。
• One year at a prep school left students with four years of eligibility at a four-year university, as opposed to two years of eligibility after two years at a junior college.
  学生在预备学习一年之后，就可以准备进入四年制的大学或是两年制的初级学院学习了。
• Just two days before she killed herself, Val gave me a gift, a token of congratulations on being accepted to the Naval Academy prep school in Rhode Island.
  就在她自己的两天前，威尔给了我一个礼物，对我被罗得岛海军预备学院接受以示祝贺。
• Sam has bad dreams because soon he will be going to prep school.
  萨姆老是做恶梦，因为不久他就要进预备学校了。
• Pencey Prep is this school that's in Agerstown, Pennsylvania.
  潘西这学校在宾夕法尼亚州埃杰斯镇。
• EXAMPLE: My younger brother is taking several difficult college prep courses in high school that he hopes it will help him pass his university entrance examinations.
  我弟弟在高中学习几门很难的大学预备课程，他希望这能帮助他通过高考。
• He remembers beginning aged 12, as a boy at prep school, when he was given one of those individual garden plots.
  他记得自己12岁在预科学校念书时就开始了，当时他得到了那些单独园地中的一块。
• I had a headmaster just like him in prep school.
  我在预校就有个教官像他。
• And these qualities matter more to ultimate success than SAT prep courses in high school or what college your children go to.
  这些品质对于孩子最终的成功至关重要，远远超过高中的SAT预科课程和读哪所的大学。
• He grew up working-class in Manhattan and was always drawn to the prep school mystique.
  他成长于曼哈顿的工人阶级，总是被预科神秘性所吸引。